Vendor Partnerships
BSS is a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner and provides its clients with the highest levels of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on skills. As a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, BSS encompasses a broad range of expertise and vendor affiliations. Our real world perspective can help clients prioritize and effectively deliver technology solutions.
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During the process of earning this distinction, BSS achieved the following Microsoft competencies and specializations:
Microsoft Business Solutions Competency
The Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Competency allows partners to identify their unique, proven proficiency in designing and/or deploying enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities with Microsoft Business Solutions technologies.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Specialization
This specialization is targeted to partners who focus on helping organizations develop and build integrated solutions around Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management technology, including installation, configuration, customization, migration, workflow, reporting, and interfaces related to CRM.
Data Management Solutions Competency
Partners that achieve this competency focus on implementing solutions that feature Data Warehousing, On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), Data Mining, and Decision Support.
Business Intelligence Competency
Partners that achive this competency focus on desiging, deploying, and customizing business intelligence solutions based on Microsoft technologies.
Business Intelligence Platform Specialization
This specialization is targeted to partners who focus on delivering services, tools, and application business intelligence using SQL Server technology.
Custom Development Solutions Competency
Partners that achieve this competency focus on delivering customized solutions developed with Microsoft software and development tools.
Smart Client Development Specialization
This specialization focuses on delivering custom-developed solutions accessed through a client, such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Tools for Office, and Microsoft Office.
Web Development Specialization
This specialization focuses on delivering Web-enabled deployment solutions required in organizations that wish to operate and transact through the Internet using Visual Studio, ASP.NET, IIS, Windows Server, and SQL Server.
Networking Infrastructure Solutions Competency
Partners enrolled in the Network Infrastructure Solutions Competency have proven competency in crafting infrastructure solutions for small to midsize businesses that include Windows Server Solutions based on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server operating system, or Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 and Windows Small Business Server 2003. These implementations may include crafting solutions that connect Windows-based servers, PC locations, and the Internet; installing a server farm; or building a Windows Small Business Server stand-alone solution that includes file/print capabilities.
Small Business Specialist Community
- Network Solutions Specialization
- Hardware Solutions Specialization
As they recognize the need for information technology, small business customers want high-quality solutions that are designed to meet those needs. These solutions are configured according to the customers’ requirements and supported to ensure customer satisfaction. Microsoft® Small Business Specialists focus on the design, deployment, and customization of small business solutions using Microsoft technology.
BSS is a member of several other vendor partnership programs including SAP, Sun iForce, and the Avaya Developer Community, which provide us with preferred access to technical support, product releases, and training. BSS has also successfully completed the audit for CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration). CMMI helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes. CMMI was created in 1997 by members of industry, government and the SEI at Carnegie Mellon University and has been an organizational standard.
Insurance Industry Partnerships
BSS is a member of the Insurance and Accounting Systems Association (IASA) and regularly attends their conference and trade shows, along with ACORD, the Insurance Standards Organization, and the Risk and Insurance Managers Society. We are also a Deployment Partner of Trilogy Software, a leading provider of software solutions to the Insurance and Financial Services Sector.
Client Partnerships
BSS believes that the most successful IT endeavors are the result of true client and vendor partnerships. One of the key elements of a successful partnership is effective communication between the client and vendor. Our Project Managers proactively keep customers fully abreast of all progress through the entire project lifecycle.
We encourage a high degree of involvement, not only on the part of our technical customers, but with the business customers as well. This raises the level of customer satisfaction and helps to bring projects in on time. Many of our projects are highly critical in nature, with tight deadlines for delivery.
We are willing to structure our contracts to share with our customers not only the potential reward of a successful project but the risk as well. Our commitment to results and 100% customer satisfaction on every assignment allows us to develop long lasting relationships with many of our clients.
Community Partnerships
We feel it is important to have a relationship in the communities where our business is centered. BSS is a member of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals, the Memphis Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce of the Princeton Area.
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